is the author of twenty books of poetry, plays, and fiction, the most recent of which are Solitary Workwoman, (Junction Press, 2011), Journey to Purity, (Texture Press, 2009), and Plays by Rochelle Owens, (Broadway Play Publishing, 2000).  A pioneer in the experimental off – Broadway theatre movement and an internationally known poet, she has received Village Voice Obie awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle.  Her plays have been presented worldwide and in festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, and Berlin.  Her play Futz, which is considered a classic of the American avant – garde theatre, was produced by Ellen Stewart at LaMama, directed by Tom O’Horgan and performed by the LaMama Troupe in 1967, and was made into a film in 1969.  A French language production of Three Front was produced by France – Culture and broadcast on Radio France.  She has held fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and numerous other foundations.  She has taught at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Oklahoma and held residencies at Brown and Southwestern Louisiana State.

known as “the baby of the Beat generation” because she was just 18 and had already being published by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) in Evergreen Review.  In 1961, she moved to Vermont and built a small one – room cabin where she experimented with writing “sound” poetry.  In 1973, she founded Vermont Artisans, Vermont’s first craft sales and educational cooperative.  In 1976, she was asked by a feminist lesbian press to sit on its editorial board.  There she edited the magazine Conch and co – edited an anthology of local women’s writings and art.  Her published books include, Machig Labdrön; Footprint, (Longhouse Press, 2007); Deadly Nightshade, (Coffee House Press, 1989); You’ve got me, (Longhouse Press, 1987); Contra La Violencia, (White Pine Press, 1985); and many others.  Although partially disabled, she is still able to produce pottery, mostly commissioned dinner sets.  In the summer, she bakes whole grain sourdough bread and sells it at local farmers’ markets.

began writing as a teenager in Seattle, Washington.  At that age, he was already a veteran of the arts, having been a child actor, beginning at age nine, in TV ads and summer stock theater.  His work with partner Jonathan Williams (1929–2008) on Jargon Books brought him interaction with some of the most visionary writers and artists of the 20th Century.  He is a poet deeply trained in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, the Germanic languages, runes, roots, herbal lore, foods, wines, gardens, astrology, and alchemy.  His books include At Dusk Iridescent, A Gathering of Poems, 1972 –1997 ( Jargon Society, 2000 ), Monotypes & Tracings (Enitharmon Press, 1994), Coromandel (Skanky Possum Books, 2003), and a translation of the ancient Chinese classic Daode Jing (Flood Editions, 2006).  Many of his poems and translations (including Beowulf  and The I Ching remain unpublished.  He lives in North Carolina, at the southernmost end of the Appalachians.

lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.  She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia.  She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A. 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University (M.A. 1968).  She is a poet, novelist, theorist, magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor.  She is the founding co – editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory.  Since the 1980s, she has served as writer – in – residence at numerous universities across Canada and mentored at Sage Hill (Saskatchewan) and the Banff Centre for the Arts.  Her extensive list of publications includes: The Given, (McClelland & Stewart, 2008); Seven Glass Bowls, (Nomados, 2003); This Tremour Love Is, (Talonbooks, 2001); Steveston, 3rd edition, (Ronsdale Press, 2001); Readings from the Labyrinth, (NeWest Press, 1998); and Taken, (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1996).  She is a member of the Order of Canada, was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Mount Saint Vincent University, and a Doctor of Letters from the University of Western Ontario.